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Severe Droughts Affect Forests And CO2 Storage for Years, Study Shows
2015-07-31 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Severe drought can affect a forest's growth for up to four years, a period during which it is less effective at removing carbon from the atmosphere, a new study reports in the journal Science. Standard climate models have assumed that forests and other vegetation bounce back quickly from extreme drought, but that assumption is far off the mark, the researchers say. Looking at data from more than 1,300 forest sites dating back to 1948, they found that living trees took an average of two to four years...
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Ranchers have the power to control impact of droughts
2015-07-19 23:56:00| Beef
Walt Davis for Beef Producer We have the power to make the drought worse or not. We can't control drought, or flood, but we can control how badly the next drought will impact our operations. read more
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NZ should expect more droughts - climate change issues minister
2015-06-14 00:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Zealand Herald: New Zealand can expect more droughts as climate change hits home, a government minister said this morning. Tim Groser said it wasn't clear if the current North Canterbury drought was directly linked to carbon emissions but unless humanity solved the ongoing emissions crisis, such destructive weather events were likely to intensify in the years or decades to come. "...The science is very clear on this. The prevalence of these droughts will increase," he told the Q&A programme on TV One. Mr...
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7 Epic Droughts Devastating the Planet
2015-06-03 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Every inhabited continent, to varying degrees, faces extremely high water stress. That means that in certain areas more than 80 percent of the local water supply is withdrawn by businesses, farmers, residents and other consumers every year. Not all of that water is consumed--it may flow back into a river after its used and be available again downstream--but the demand still creates competition where it is needed. These stressed areas are also the ones most vulnerable to episodic droughts. With...
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Droughts, Floods and Heatwaves: Blame It on Climate Change
2015-05-17 17:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: As temperatures soar to record heights, blame it on global warmingbut only about three-quarters of the time. And when the rain comes down by the bucketful, you can attribute one downpour in five to climate change. Yet another team of research scientists has looked at the probabilities, and has linked extremes of weather with global warming. Extremes have always happened and are, by definition, rare events. So, for the last 30 years, climate scientists have carefully explained that no particular...
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